Street lantern



Oct. 8, 1929.

J. LAB IN STREET LANTERN Filed July 5, 1928 Jase 72 La Q Patented Oct. 8, 1929 UNITED STATES JOSEPH LABIN, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY, ASSIG-NOR G. M. 13. IL, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY- STREET LANTERN Application filed July 5, 1928, Serial No. 290,573, and-in Germany October 1, 1927.

It frequently happensthat the electric incandescent lamps are stolen or otherwise removed from street-lanterns.

This invention has for its object to make the removing of the lamps more difficult or even to prevent the same. The unauthorized removing of the incandescent lamps from street-lanterns is generally carried out by removing the glass-panes and reinserting the same after the electric lamp has been removed.

- According to this invention provisions are made to prevent removing of the glass-panes. WVith this object in view the glass-panes of the lantern are inserted into'the frames from the sides, and the slots in the edge of the lan tern frames, through which the glass-panes are to be inserted, are covered by closing bars adapted to be locked. The electric incandescent lamp can therefore not be removed without breaking the glass-panes, whereby however the attention of watchmen would be aroused.

The closing bars are preferably slidable and have at one end a horizontal inwardly directed arm designed to be secured on the lantern-frame by means of a screw or other convenient means.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated, by way of example, in the accompanying drawing, in which r Fig. 1 shows an improved street-lantern in elevation. I

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 shows in section one corner of the lantern and the slidable closing bar on larger scale.

A bar a designed to cover and close a corner of the lantern b is slidably arranged so that it can be pulled down. This bar a is of curved cross section and has an inwardly turned flange 0 at each side, said flanges being designed to grip over guide-flanges d on the corresponding open corner of the lanternframe. The frames f for the glass-panes g are each open at one side so that the glass panes can be inserted through the open sides, guide-grooves It being arranged in the upper and lower sides of said frames.

When the closing bar a has been pulled.

down, a glass-pane can be inserted through the open end-side of the frame. After insertion of the glass-pane the bar a is pushed up and locked in its positionby means of a screw is, screwed through the top-plate of the lantern-casing and through a threaded hole in a'horizontal arm 2' at the upper end of the closing bar a.

v If the head of the screw 7:; is sunk into the top-plate of the lantern or made to look like an ornamental knob, the manner of fixation is not easily recognizable.

It is evident that only know in which manner secured in the frames.

I claim initiated persons the glass-panes are TO THE FIRM LABIKO VVEGWEISER A street-lantern with glass-panes to be in serted from the sides, comprising in combination a lantern casing provided with frames for the glass-panes arranged to form openings at the corners of the lantern casing, a

closing bar for each corner opening slidably v JOSEPH LABIN. 

